Posted June 20, 200817 yr Well i was having a bit of a slow start with my cabinet breeding. I waited 4 weeks for my birds to even start kissing. But now after 7 weeks i have 18 eggs woo hoo! And counting they are still laying! I am so excited. I cant wait until they feather up i have paired them for good results and a couple because they were in love but either way i should have some little beauties! My daughter cant wait either! I will post some pics when they start hatching the first is due on sunday.Oooooh and i have a double yolker! I have heard that they dont have much chance of surviving? Does anyone know the odds?
June 20, 200817 yr Congrats! The double yolkers definately have it stacked against them, I *think* Kaz had twins survive though so it does happen.
June 21, 200817 yr Author Update time..... Now we have 23 eggs some are fertile some are not. In a clutch what is the average amount that hatch generally? Is it supposed to be all of them and if they dont is there a problem? I am just curious because i am dealing with a few first time mums and am not sure how many will be fertile or clear?
June 28, 200817 yr Author Now i have around 20 eggs that are fertile so around 75%. I have had two hatch one is in the process of hatching and have had one DIS so, so far it is very promising.I am going to cull a few of them though because i have 50 adult budgies which is about 10 too many so we will see what happens there. If anyone else has any cabinet success stories for this very cold season i would love to hear them and also any tips you might have to make the babies healthy in this freezing weather! I am sure that my DIS was because of the cold weather because it was chirping loudly and then i think it just lost all of its strength in the cold!
June 29, 200817 yr Congrats on all your eggs. I am not a winter breeder myself - It's too cold and risky on the chicks. I really hope you have success and i look forward to hearing the news that they have hatched and are doing well What is your breeding set up like?? Last spring i rapped my nest boxes with towels to help insulate against the cold.
June 29, 200817 yr Author Congrats on all your eggs. I am not a winter breeder myself - It's too cold and risky on the chicks. I really hope you have success and i look forward to hearing the news that they have hatched and are doing well What is your breeding set up like?? Last spring i rapped my nest boxes with towels to help insulate against the cold. I have them set up in a large aviary in cabinets there are three sides of colourbond on the aviary so that stops alot of the wind other than that i have just started to wrap the one cabinet up that has eggs as it is one of the metal cages with box attached the others are made of wood and are quite warm so they seem to be happy. The baby that was DIS was from my colony aviary they are just in normal breeding boxes and i have a blanket wrapped around it.The eggs are still chirping away so hopefully tommorow i will have to new additions to the flock.
June 30, 200817 yr Author How are the Cabinets going did you guys add a light ?? Nope didnt set it up yet but im going to start because they are looking mighty frisky in there. I need to give them a gentle nudge!
June 30, 200817 yr Good luck Missylu, Other members might have a better idea then me so do a seperate post mate.... Best of luck
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